4G Failover questions
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@Dashrender said in 4G Failover questions:
I wonder if ditching those I assume spinning drives would help?
They're SSD (3D NAND).
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@Dashrender said in 4G Failover questions:
@travisdh1 said in 4G Failover questions:
@Dashrender said in 4G Failover questions:
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@scottalanmiller said in 4G Failover questions:
@Dashrender said in 4G Failover questions:
holy crap - it cost you $250 a month to run it at home - WTH?
How can it not? Ever priced out the power costs on a server? It's not cheap.
Yeah, power alone can make moving a server to a colo make a lot of sense.
Sadly, every place that offers 1u of colo space I've looked at has a max power draw of 120w and my current home lab box normally draws around 130w.
Time for a more efficient server?
Maybe in another couple of years. It's a Dell PowerEdge R620, 2 Xeon E5-2660 8core 16 thread CPU, 24 4GB 1333MHz RAM modules, 4 Cruicial MX500 500GB drives, Broadcom 4port BCM5720 Gigabit ethernet adapter, and a single 750 watt power supply. It's currently only drawing 112 Watts, so who knows, maybe I could "get away" with it.
I wonder if ditching those I assume spinning drives would help?
I've got 4 300GB 10k drives around here as well, but the SSDs are so much better.
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@travisdh1 said in 4G Failover questions:
@Dashrender said in 4G Failover questions:
@travisdh1 said in 4G Failover questions:
@scottalanmiller said in 4G Failover questions:
@Dashrender said in 4G Failover questions:
holy crap - it cost you $250 a month to run it at home - WTH?
How can it not? Ever priced out the power costs on a server? It's not cheap.
Yeah, power alone can make moving a server to a colo make a lot of sense.
Sadly, every place that offers 1u of colo space I've looked at has a max power draw of 120w and my current home lab box normally draws around 130w.
Time for a more efficient server?
Maybe in another couple of years. It's a Dell PowerEdge R620, 2 Xeon E5-2660 8core 16 thread CPU, 24 4GB 1333MHz RAM modules, 4 Cruicial MX500 500GB drives, Broadcom 4port BCM5720 Gigabit ethernet adapter, and a single 750 watt power supply. It's currently only drawing 112 Watts, so who knows, maybe I could "get away" with it.
120W is a very low limit, just 1 Amp. Colocation America has 2 Amps , so 240W, which is low but still more reasonable.
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@Pete-S said in 4G Failover questions:
@travisdh1 said in 4G Failover questions:
@Dashrender said in 4G Failover questions:
@travisdh1 said in 4G Failover questions:
@scottalanmiller said in 4G Failover questions:
@Dashrender said in 4G Failover questions:
holy crap - it cost you $250 a month to run it at home - WTH?
How can it not? Ever priced out the power costs on a server? It's not cheap.
Yeah, power alone can make moving a server to a colo make a lot of sense.
Sadly, every place that offers 1u of colo space I've looked at has a max power draw of 120w and my current home lab box normally draws around 130w.
Time for a more efficient server?
Maybe in another couple of years. It's a Dell PowerEdge R620, 2 Xeon E5-2660 8core 16 thread CPU, 24 4GB 1333MHz RAM modules, 4 Cruicial MX500 500GB drives, Broadcom 4port BCM5720 Gigabit ethernet adapter, and a single 750 watt power supply. It's currently only drawing 112 Watts, so who knows, maybe I could "get away" with it.
120W is a very low limit, just 1 Amp. Colocation America has 2 Amps , so 240W, which low but still more reasonable.
BTW, your server config is not the most power efficient so there are things you could change if you wanted to that would drop the power requirement a lot.
In no particular order:
- drop from two to one CPU
- replace CPU with E5-2600 V2 series. They use 22nm tech and have about 25% lower energy consumption in the same socket. Up to 12 cores.
- use low voltage CPU models, for instance E5-2650L V2 (10 cores)
- replace memory so you use fewer modules with higher density, for instance 16GB or 32GB
- use low voltage memory modules DDR3L
- replace the power supply with the titanium model
